спокойный пансионат для европейцев quiet boarding house for Europeans

Rested from 12 to 24 January 2013.31 thousand for two people. Most of the reviews say a lot and everything is correct. I will add some points. The operator "Biblio Globus" paid for 50 rooms in this hotel, so there are very few Russians. Tour guide Ali is not overly persistent when selling excursions, he even bargained and made small discounts. We were a group of 8 adults and a 6 year old child. There were 4 times in Egypt and usually we buy excursions inexpensively from a Ukrainian woman living in Sharm named Irina, she is quite famous on the forums, I will not repeat myself. There were no problems with excursions. This time, friends were for the first time and they did not want to take risks, they had to buy from Ali. For an excursion to Israel, 1 adult plus a child bargained for 150 cu, the lost land threw off 10 cu each, a super safari buggy + ATV and camels threw off 5 cu.
When checking into the hotel, there were “dances with tambourines” known to many - extortion of money for a normal check-in.
We were shown building 6, which is located near the reception, and for a room in the center of the hotel, they initially requested 150 ye. I want to note that the hotel is 80 percent populated by Germans, the main age is 40-50 years old, the rest are a few young people and Deutsche pensioners, so the staff is used to tips. As a result of "bloody battles" and knowledge of the English language, they bargained for the numbers that we wanted on the 45th. We checked into rooms 1261-1252.5 rooms overlooking the lower pool and the sea. The rooms are all similar, only there is an option for 1 or 2 beds, and the balcony is open - closed, more or a little less.

The sea and the weather favored us. In 2011 we were in Sharm in March, it was much cooler. Now in the evening and at night you could feel comfortable in a T-shirt. I spent 2-3 hours in the sea in the morning and 1-2 in the afternoon when the water is more muddy. The bay as a whole is very good, the coral wall is not deep.
If you swim to the left, then there are more depths but a beautiful reef from the Sheraton to swim 600 meters and the waves are already around the corner of the bay. If you swim to the right, then you liked the reef from Continental Plaza to the far pontoon of Hayat. It is 1 km. There is a rugged reef, not great depths, a lot of interesting things if you are lucky with the tide and swim between the beach and the wall. There are more fish there and they are less shy for underwater photography. From the pontoon Hayat and beyond, the dead reef is not interesting about 500 meters before the turn, there is coral around the turn to Movenpick in Namabey Bay, but it makes no sense to swim after it 2.5 km. I had enough swims to Hyatt, which is about 2 km in both directions, just in time for the opening of the bar on the beach I returned. On the reef wall of the Continentals, Napoleons, large caranxas, moray eels, eagle rays, and large gurnards were found. There are almost no sea anemones and amphiprions, large urchins and lionfish in the bay.
This year we didn’t have time to catch jellyfish, but something was constantly goading in the sea, and after many hours of swimming, I was covered in small spots like from nettles. Therefore, a thin lycra wetsuit still does not hurt or keep 9% vinegar on hand to process, then it heals faster. Leaving aside from the crazy diver who jumped on his head from the yacht, he peeled off his hand on the corals, turned to the pharmacist at the hotel, they gave me a vial of a white suspension into which a tube of ointment was squeezed out, gave it to 25, smeared it 3 times a day, everything healed in 3 weeks. A similar burn received in 2009 with our ointments healed for 2 months.
The animation is very miserable, 2 Russian girls who walk around and complain about how hard it is to work for a small salary is not animation. One of them with her Turkish husband was kicked out in front of us. Small shows after dinner for children - this is not children's animation,

an hour-long concert near the Veranda restaurant or a dance program of local guys until 9 pm is not animation at all. All this is accompanied by lazy applause from the Europeans, at 21 everything turns off and they lazily disperse to numbers. We were not bored, we went to the Old Town, Namabey and Soho, or stayed at the hotel for drinks from duty free and cheap strawberries, we rested either on the balcony or at the tables near the pool
The beach is the most convenient at the left end, it is with imported sand and sun loungers in 4 rows, it is small. We needed 9 sunbeds on the first line at the bar, and we took turns taking them and guarding them from 7 in the morning. We took turns having breakfast. At the time of dinner, towels and things were left on the sunbeds. Keep in mind that there are very few chairs, tables and ashtrays on the beach, and we also dragged them to our rookery in the morning.
although we rarely tip a dollar, we are cheerful and smiling and you can chat with us, the Europeans will give 5 euros and do it with disdain and humor is not allowed with them, so “Rush” is “Khabib” for them, and also learn at least 10 words in Arabic they will appreciate it. About chocolate, we took Alenka in a small bar of 20 pieces, the porter of things immediately upon arrival said no need for a dollar, give me chocolate, which I got. Subsequently, he drove an electric car to the room several times when he was too lazy to go after the market to the room with purchases. Chocolate went well and the bartenders and waiters. I must say that the staff there is really helpful and sociable. Constantly using the same bar and eating in the same place in the Veranda restaurant, we had to move the tables to our company and the waiters did not delay the drinks. The food for the Egyptian 5 is not bad at all, although not varied. Liked ham and fried bacon for breakfast
cheese from not very bad ones is usually worse. Soups are quite tolerable for lunch, good rolls for dinner. Twice there were boiled octopuses, very much.

Restaurants by appointment passed all. I liked the Italian, pizzeria, barbecue restaurant in a tent on the beach. Mexican food has good hot dogs for lunch. Didn't like the fish. Not tasty and long. He was advised to us as the best Ali for celebrating my birthday and again deceived. We brought 2 bottles of champagne with us from the rooms, but we were offered to pay 20$ for drinking it, we had to drink it in the room later. At the end of the evening, I was given a congratulatory letter from the hotel administration and a cake (dry cake) 15 by 15 cm. The next one was thrown out untouched, it was very ugly and dry. From the excursions we took the “Super Safari”, in general, we drove the buggies well, then we changed horses to ATVs, the guide didn’t give them to drive not so fast.
Stop at a Bedouin village with a mini zoo. Shisha, tortilla tea all included, camel ride 200 meters too. "Lost Land" from the new excursions, Ali's advertisement is chic at the exit - a scam for money. Some in the group thought that they were being taken to the Colored Canyon, please do not confuse these are different excursions. After the bus, we transferred old Toyotas to jeeps, drove 2 kilometers along the flat sands to the entrance to the canyon, and the most fun began there. The group included children from 6 years old and 76 pensioners. Descent into the canyon on a wooden ladder and there were 3 more of them when moving from one gorge to another. The height of the stairs is from 4 to 7 meters. The whole canyon is about 1 km. I did not see the promised beauties, after visiting the Jordanian Petra this is a pathetic parody. The whole journey was accompanied by comments from the guide Ahmed who is to be credited a very interesting storyteller.
The entire journey consisted of short passages to the next staircase and a half-hour waiting for the group to descend. The old people had nowhere to go, the children, too, because you won’t come back, the jeeps left for the exit from the canyon. It is useless to describe how we lowered pensioners and children, passing the bodies along the chain - you need to see. As a result, we reach a small valley and climb along the scree to the top of the dune. Its height is about 5 floors, and the whole group of us, sitting on the top on the priests, are trying to slide down the sand. It doesn’t work out very well, it doesn’t slide very well, a piece of cardboard for speed will not hurt. As a result, we descended with full pants of sand and shoes, another 300m and we drink tea, with cakes in a Bedouin shed. Then again jeeps 1 km and we are on the bus, a long 2.5 hour transfer to the bay, landing on a yacht and the promised wonderful coral reef, but no, having moved 200 meters from the shore, the yacht stopped near the Al Sadih fortress located on the island.
And we are fed quite a tolerable dinner. Again I am waiting for an exit to the sea and a wonderful reef, it turns out that everything is simple and it is proposed to dive here. Most of the group did not climb into the sea at all and lay tired on the upper deck. The swimmers were told that the most beautiful coral is near the coast, and here I am in the long-awaited sea. It is difficult to describe my emotions without obscene words. I saw a more trampled reef only in Nama Bay. Having got out on the yacht, I wanted to fill the face of the guides from the yacht, and I almost killed Ali from the hotel who told us fairy tales in the hotel. He blatantly lied in his eyes and praised this excursion very much, although he knew that earlier we had already passed almost the entire excursion set in Sharm. THIS IS THE WORST EXCURSION In general, given the good weather, warm sea and my company of 9 people, the rest is excellent.